In January 2014, the New York Times’ Manohla Dargis wrote a piece titled, “As Indies Explode, An Appeal For Sanity”, in which she bemoaned the fact that there were too many films being released right now, most of them lackluster, forgettable and just plain bad movies. Salon followed up with another piece on what they’re […]
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12 Must-See Three-Strip Technicolor Films
Technicolor films go way back. The process was the world’s second color process when it was invented in 1916, after Kinemacolor had first hit England back in 1908. From its introduction to the mid-fifties, Technicolor was the most widely used color process in Hollywood although the first three incarnations of the process, from 1916 to […]
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20 Great Anti-War Movies That Are Worth Your Time
In the novel ‘Slaughterhouse 5’, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. said that writing an anti-war book is like writing an anti-glacier book. Both are inevitable, so what’s the point? Au contraire mon frere. Please remember the graffiti from May of 1968 as French students nearly toppled their government: “Be a realist! Expect the impossible!” David Mamet pointed […]
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The 10 Best Horror Movies Based on The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most influential horror writers of all time, expanding the genre of Gothic literature and creating the earliest detective stories. Poe wrote during the early 19th century in New England and was a strong supporter of the romantic movement which he utilized to create dozens of popular short stories […]
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Filmmaker Retrospective: The Parody Cinema of Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks’s comedic talent and gift for parody has given the world some of the funniest movie ever created, making fun of various subjects, some serious and others who had it coming, Brooks gave a comedy a twist of absurdity which was welcomed and needed. His filmography is full of classics cult favorites though he […]
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25 Great Movies About Friendship That Are Worth Viewing
Friendship is one of the most important things in life. It is also a major theme and inspiration for beautiful and diverse films. From war movies to family comedies; they all draw some of the plot line’s backbone from this unique feeling that is friendship. Remember Red and Andy Dufresne sitting on the rooftop and […]